1934 ⟶ Night of the Long Knives: Purge of Nazi Rivals

Night of the Long Knives in Germany. Potential rivals to Hit...
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1939

🔪 Night of the Long Knives: Purge of Nazi Rivals

Night of the Long Knives in Germany. Potential rivals to Hitler within the Nazi Party, including SA leader Ernst Röhm and prominent anti-Nazi conservatives such as, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, are killed by the SS and the Gestapo. Following this event, the SA continues to exist but loses almost all its influence and is effectively superseded by the SS.⟶
Night of the Long Knives: Purge of Nazi Rivals (1934)
Nazi PartypurgesSASSHitlerpolitical violencepower struggleGermanyauthoritarianism

🛡️ SS Becomes Independent of Nazi Party

The SS becomes an organization independent of the Nazi Party, reporting directly to Adolf Hitler.⟶
SS Becomes Independent of Nazi Party (1934)
SSNazi PartyHitlerpower consolidationparamilitarysecurityGermanyauthoritarianism

💣 Hitler Threatens Prague's Destruction

Angered by the recent protests in Prague, Hitler summons to Berlin the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Konstantin von Neurath and his Higher SS and Police Leader Karl Hermann Frank making clear that unless the issue is dealt with rightaway the city will be razed to the ground.⟶
Hitler Threatens Prague's Destruction (1939)
GermanyPragueHitlerthreatBohemia and MoraviarepressionSSpolitical violenceintimidation